11-25-2007, 11:10 AM
ALOHA,
The Syns of amerika? all 7
1. Gluttony, Well SUPERSIZE me, McHeartattack,Thanksgiving? more food consumed in one day for what, a story? while 3/4 of the world eats what?
2. Greed, More is better, He who has all the gold makes all the rules? Capitalism, Sucess, Conspicous consumption, Madison Ave. Black Friday? Buy-Sell. Buy-Sell. Walmart.
3. Lust. Well if Sex doesn't sell everything in america I don't know whay does? Quality?, no. "When you turn your car on, does it return the favor? Nuf said.
4. Anger. Well, WAR?, retaliation, agression in the name of "american interests", for those which don't even have children in the fight?
5. Pride. If ya ain't PROUD to be an american boy, then leave the country. Pride is SO damn american. Ye ha! Patriotism, Ethnocentricity?
6. Envy. Well keepin up with the Jones's, and competion to be better, bigger, winners, more important, richer, enviably americans?
7.Sloth. Which I include Apathy as well. Couch potato, beer drinkin, big screen addicted, fake pepperoni pizza drippin, super bowl watchin, 65% of the obeese population?
Pretty glaringly clear if you're able to take yourself out of the box and look back inside, this is what you'd see.
IMO
What's your flavor? Food for thought.
KEEP PUNA RURAL
After I read this and then;
Lee DeJongh punapetah
Quite true but not strictly Amerikan. Remember the following?
Genghis Khan
The vikings
Virtually all the medieval and renaissance Popes and kings
Mohammed (read his history. It's got it all)
Shaka Zulu
The middle eastern Biblical Kingdoms
The Egyptian Dynasties
The Plains Indians
The Aztecs
The Incas
The Mayans
The original Crossers of the Bering Strait(they destroyed an entire ecosystem)
the original Australian Aborigines 50,000 years ago( they also destroyed an entire ecosystem)
ditto the Maori in New Zealand
Ditto the original Hawaiians
And lastly but not least
King Kamahameha
Blood, sex, war, greed, lust etc at all too human.
Buddha teaches us to put these aside.
Peace be unto you.
reading this I think the rest of you are blind
If you look for your dreams in a pocket full of gold, you must feel guilty.
I like punapetah are happy with living the dream with the silver lining.
"too old too soon, too wise too late'
The Syns of amerika? all 7
1. Gluttony, Well SUPERSIZE me, McHeartattack,Thanksgiving? more food consumed in one day for what, a story? while 3/4 of the world eats what?
2. Greed, More is better, He who has all the gold makes all the rules? Capitalism, Sucess, Conspicous consumption, Madison Ave. Black Friday? Buy-Sell. Buy-Sell. Walmart.
3. Lust. Well if Sex doesn't sell everything in america I don't know whay does? Quality?, no. "When you turn your car on, does it return the favor? Nuf said.
4. Anger. Well, WAR?, retaliation, agression in the name of "american interests", for those which don't even have children in the fight?
5. Pride. If ya ain't PROUD to be an american boy, then leave the country. Pride is SO damn american. Ye ha! Patriotism, Ethnocentricity?
6. Envy. Well keepin up with the Jones's, and competion to be better, bigger, winners, more important, richer, enviably americans?
7.Sloth. Which I include Apathy as well. Couch potato, beer drinkin, big screen addicted, fake pepperoni pizza drippin, super bowl watchin, 65% of the obeese population?
Pretty glaringly clear if you're able to take yourself out of the box and look back inside, this is what you'd see.
IMO
What's your flavor? Food for thought.
KEEP PUNA RURAL
After I read this and then;
Lee DeJongh punapetah
Quite true but not strictly Amerikan. Remember the following?
Genghis Khan
The vikings
Virtually all the medieval and renaissance Popes and kings
Mohammed (read his history. It's got it all)
Shaka Zulu
The middle eastern Biblical Kingdoms
The Egyptian Dynasties
The Plains Indians
The Aztecs
The Incas
The Mayans
The original Crossers of the Bering Strait(they destroyed an entire ecosystem)
the original Australian Aborigines 50,000 years ago( they also destroyed an entire ecosystem)
ditto the Maori in New Zealand
Ditto the original Hawaiians
And lastly but not least
King Kamahameha
Blood, sex, war, greed, lust etc at all too human.
Buddha teaches us to put these aside.
Peace be unto you.
reading this I think the rest of you are blind
If you look for your dreams in a pocket full of gold, you must feel guilty.
I like punapetah are happy with living the dream with the silver lining.
"too old too soon, too wise too late'